“Ashleigh’s family members discovered it obscure the way it could possibly be that their daughter was triaged to the Ramp … as an alternative of coming into the ED and being promptly handled, given how critically sick she was.”
Nevertheless, she additionally discovered Hunter had died from an invasive case of meningococcal, a critical sickness that could possibly be quickly deadly.
Whether or not or not Hunter’s case was an incident of “affected person ramping” attributable to her being transferred from St John Ambulance care to the hospital’s care inside minutes of a 30-minute deadline was examined within the inquest, and Fogliani discovered she was in impact “ramped” for about an hour.
Within the days earlier than her demise, Hunter had travelled from her dwelling city of Geraldton to Perth for Christmas to meet up with pals.
On Boxing Day, Hunter and her boyfriend had drinks along with her faculty pal earlier than taking ecstasy that night and attending nightclubs and the on line casino.
The couple returned to their lodging round 5am, with Hunter feeling drained and having a shower earlier than going to mattress. At 10.30am she awoke and felt unwell.
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Over the following two hours, the ache turned so dangerous Hunter might hardly transfer, and her boyfriend known as an ambulance.
A toxicology report confirmed hashish, methamphetamine and MDMA in Hunter’s system, nevertheless Fogliani was assured they performed no position in her demise.
Fogliani made a number of suggestions, together with that WA Well being implement a single digital medical file, seek the advice of with St John on getting access to real-time ambulance digital medical data, and develop methods to ascertain a working definition of an “emergency” to assist scale back ED overcrowding.
“The proof from the medical specialists on this case has persuaded me that whereas Ashleigh had a quickly progressing illness course of, her prospects of survival with immediate medical remedy, whereas very slim, weren’t wholly absent,” Fogliani wrote.
“Whereas it is vitally unlikely that Ashleigh would have survived even with immediate medical remedy, understandably her household would have wished for Ashleigh to be given each probability, nevertheless small, to outlive.”
With Heather McNeill
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